On March 26, Symantec discovered 11 Android applications that were all made to appear like they were legitimate apps related to tracking cases in the Covid-19 pandemic, but which were in fact secretly ...

The government of Canada today announced that it is ending use of the app it commissioned based on the COVID-19 exposure alert API developed jointly by Google and Apple as a measure to help combat the ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part ...

A report suggests the COVID apps used in 26 states based on Google/Apple APIs didn’t have much effect. Very small percentages of the population used the apps. Even fewer reported positive COVID-19 ...

Japan's COVID-19 tracking application for smartphones had a malfunction since an update in September, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

Creators of the AlohaSafe Alert app, the state’s official COVID-19 exposure notification service, said it has now been updated so that users can self-report a positive, at-home test result. The free ...

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As variants of the COVID-19 virus emerge throughout the USA, there is a renewed push to get more Americans vaccinated. As of Wednesday, about 67% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, ...